Blast in Mosque Hits During Muslim Eid Holiday

KABUL—A bomb planted in a mosque killed the governor of an Afghan province just south of the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, during a ceremony to mark one of the holiest days in the Islamic calendar.

Gov. Arsala Jamal was delivering a speech to a crowd gathered in a mosque on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha holiday when explosives hidden in his microphone detonated and killed him, said Din Mohammad Darwish, spokesman for Logar province....